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Audio interview · September 2012 · Toronto

Caleb Landry Jones & Brandon Cronenberg

Actor Caleb Landry Jones (Antiviral, X-Men) and Director Brandon Cronenberg (Antiviral, Broken Tulips) chat with Matt Schichter in Toronto.

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Episode #404 · Caleb Landry Jones & Brandon CronenbergSeptember 2012 · 00:03:54

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0:08Do you not agree that the manious surrounding celebrity is reaching an unhealthy level? No, I don't. My clients want to feel more connected to those people that they see in the magazines and on television. Enjoy. Well, gentlemen, thanks so much for doing this. I really appreciate it. This movie, Antivira, was one of the coolest plots I've seen ever, really. Definitely, Tif. It's certainly something original. What was it like for you behind the lens for the first time of a feature film? It was a great experience. I think it helped that Nie Fitchman was the producer, and he's very good at matching brains together. A lot of the people that I work with, like, Karim, who sang this in the photographer, Rob Coner,

0:54Matt Hanham, people who need new. This is what we do to these people. It's like the great people. But the right mixture of people, and he's good at doing that. For me, it was a really comfortable experience. What's it like to craft a relationship together when you haven't been behind the lens before? You have never worked on a first-time director, I suppose. That's what I keep reading everywhere. I believe it done short. It's short of it, it did not feel whatsoever. I don't know what it's supposed to feel like a first-time director,

1:39except for maybe a lot more panic, a lot more time to set up a shot. I don't know what it means, except for someone that just maybe isn't so sure of themselves. But Brandon, although he might have not been sure of himself and was hiding it very well, I don't know. Everything is white. Why the aesthetic? Why not, right? That would be a reason. Let's just go crazy. It was a coincidence. I don't know. I mean, white is a good way to control the frame. Say in the clinic, the walls are white. You have these sort of light boxes with celebrity faces, and so they really pop out and it blends them. It's immediate significance and it draws the viewers eyes towards them, same with blood.

2:27You know, blood puffs against white extremely well, and because it makes that sound, which is why we have to ADR all of the blood scenes. Who is it, Caleb? He's detached from reality. He doesn't have a firm handle on who he is, I don't think, as a human being, as a person, as an animal in this world. I think he is completely... I'm going to stop right there. That was sound- Yeah, that's good. You like that. Are you writing again? You have ideas brewing? Yeah, I'm working on another script, but it's still a lot of it. It's brewing. Yeah, it's brewing. There are things. Well, thank you guys so much for doing this. I appreciate it.

3:13Thanks. Thank you. Appreciate it. I understand that this is inconsiderate symbolism. Thank you. It's something sinister.

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